In 2007, her short story, Sozi’s Box, was the overall winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The middle child of three she grew up in Zambia and has lived and worked in Ghana, South Africa, the UK and Zambia. 1994-present: a selected annotated bibliography We had a Skype call yesterday with US based South African author and academic Peter Anderson. 9.

The following compilation of contemporary South African fiction focuses on a post-apartheid experience from a variety of perspectives.

His latest novel, The Unspeakable, is a no holds barred, true to itself, striking and hard-hitting, honest work of fiction The South African literary canons have primarily focused on the apartheid experience.

Angela Makholwa is regarded as the first black author to write crime fiction in South Africa. Sindiwe Magona For this blog post, rather than focusing on the all-time favorites, let me talk—in no particular order—about five novels written by African authors that I’ve enjoyed very much and that might not have caught the attention of …

Damian Barr’s fiction debut, You Will Be Safe Here (Anansi International, 344 pages), follows teenaged Willem, who is sent to a camp called New Dawn, much like the camp where South African … In Stock Add to Wishlist Add to Compare. In 2004 she won the Macmillan Writers’ Prize for Africa for Wandi’s Little Voice, a book for children. R100 In Stock Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful Paton, Alan WOODSTOCK: South African Fiction (African Literature) R100 Add to cart More.

Since the end of South Africa’s apartheid regime in 1994, there has been an unexpected boom in crime fiction written in Afrikaans. Whether autobiographical, political, historical, non-fiction, or fiction, South Africans have produced a rich corpus of narratives that are must-reads for every South African. In April 2014 she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature. Omotoso, who has lived in South Africa since 1992, picks Sefi Atta's novel about a woman returning home from London to Lagos, and Fiston Mwanza Mujila's haunting Tram 83.

About the Author: Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian-born author of fiction, poetry and articles based in Belgium who writes in both English and Dutch.

South Africa of the 1970s and ’80s, under a totalitarian, nationalist government, was not a country in which police officers and crime investigators could be portrayed as sympathetic protagonists.


From the South African novelist behind the inventive chiller The Shining Girls comes a postapocalyptic thrill-ride/ parable that takes place after an unstoppable virus has wiped out most of the world’s men. She has written several novels since including Between Two Worlds, Mihloti, Soweto Stories and more.